A.M. Roundup: How much do Cuomo’s aides make?

Good morning! One day of session down, six more months to go. Including today. Expect more negotiations between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, or at least among their staffers. And expect lawmakers to leave town tonight ahead of a coming snow storm. Here are the day’s headlines…

Bill Hammond: Yet Cuomo – while saying all the right things about transforming New York State’s dysfunctional democracy – shows worrying signs that he might get sucked into the same old back rooms.//If Cuomo really means to shake up Albany, then his early decision to have an exclusive lunch with Silver (D-Manhattan) and Skelos (R-Nassau) – and only those two – was the wrong way to show it. (DN)